My download crapped out after 3 minutes and I don't have time to watch the whole 47 mins anyway because I need to go to work, at the bank, where I magically create money out of thin air (I actually did do this the other day, in error, and got into bit of trouble for it as an internal account had a surplus and I could find nowhere to put that extra money).

The author of the video is right in one regard: the banking system "creates" money. He's wrong in his assumption of how it's done.

Any loan/mortgage the bank issues does have to have a deposit to offset it. The bank can't create the money out of thin air (like I did the other day, by accident). There is even a required reserve ratio, which stipulates that the bank can't lend out 100% of the money deposited, it has to keep some of the money on hand in case the depositors want it back. I think in Canada it's fixed at 20%. Don't quote me on that though, I learned my economics in the U.S., where the RRR can be changed by the Fed to increase or decrease the supply of money in the economy.

Here's some Econ 101, on how money is "created" by the banking system:

-Person A deposits $100,000 into Bank A. Assume Bank A has a 20% RRR.
-Bank A lends out $80,000 to Person B.
-Person B buys a Porsche from a private seller, person C.
-Person C deposits $80,000 into Bank B
-Bank B holds on to 20% of it and lends out $64,000 to Person D.
-Person D deposits it into Bank C
-Bank C holds on to 20% and lends out $51,200 to person D...

...you get the picture, it goes on and on like that. Just in the example above, person A's original $100,000 deposit has spawned $195,200 in additional deposits at other banks.